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If a code doesn't arrive, you don't pay. We auto-refund your wallet within 5 minutes when a number fails to receive a valid code. No form, no waiting. Refunds go to your readynum balance instantly and never expire. Prefer a card refund? Ask support and we'll send it back the way you paid within 5 business days.

It means exactly what it says. “We don't have data for this route yet” is what we print when we have not run enough of our own orders on that route to publish a figure, and we have no supplier number for it that we would stand behind. We would rather show that sentence than invent a percentage. Auto-refund applies to those routes exactly as it does to the measured ones.

Every success rate on this site is either measured from our own orders — shown with the sample size and the time window — or a named supplier's figure we pass through and label as theirs. Where we have neither, we say so. We never show a number we can't source.

Mostly nothing, and that is the confusing part. A temp number, a temp phone number and a temporary phone number are three names for one thing: a number you rent for one verification and give back. A virtual number is the broader category — any number with software behind it instead of a SIM — so every temp number is a virtual number, but a business line and a second-phone app are too. Receive SMS online usually means the free, public kind, where the inbox is on a web page anyone can open. We sell the private, per-code kind and publish the public kind separately, because the difference between them is who else can read your message.